This page is dedicated to pre-war car emblems. I want to present to you the most beautiful and the most rarest emblems on this page. To my knowledge the first enameled radiator emblem was on the French Brasier 1904. From this time on thousands of these nice artifacts were mounted on the radiator to identify the car. If you send me a picture from your favorite emblems I´ll post them with a comment.
ON THE RIGHT SIDE YOU WILL FIND AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CARMAKERS.

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Hi! I am Gustave Fox's great-grandson, still living on Cincinnati where the company (later called Fox Nameplate Co. and then just Fox Company) existed until the 1970s, run by my father. Would love to e-mail or talk with you further about all this. Thanks, John Fox (JohnFoxMktg@gmail.com)

I have a ribbon badge consigned for auction, the top bar pin reads Kentucky and ribbon reads member 1914 and suspended by the ribbon is an oval medallion with an anvil in the middle. on the back of the medallion is Gustave Fox co. cin. Do you know of reference source for ribbons/ badges made your family's company?

Hi I have a badge from "RIVERVIEW PARK CHICAGO" with the greenduck shape stamp on the back side. I am trying to date this badge. Can you tell me when That shape stamp was first used and then stopped being used? Thanks, Dean Please e-mail me at RRGOODS@AOL.COM

What is interesting is that I have worked in Marketing for 40+ years, and my son (continuing the male Fox lineage) worked for a design and "Branding" firm after college for several years. Then it hit us--Fox Company, making logo-ed emblems for cars and appliances, was essentially the first branding company in America.

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I started collecting radiator emblems in 1976. I remember this clearly because I had to give my first car to the local scrapyard. It was a still nice looking Volkswagen squareback. The scrapyard director was interested in my car and I was interested in the emblems of all cars in the field. So a deal was made. And I went home with a bucket full of emblems. Later I've been on swap meets all around the world. I started buying emblems on Ebay in 1999. From this time on prices became comparable for the first time. This made it possible for me to invent a five-star system to categorize emblems based on their rarity and value.

This table is applicable for original emblems in a good but not perfect shape. Not for reproductions.

A common pre-war emblem from a mass producer like Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler etc.Value: 0$ - 50$

Still a well known car but no high production quantities.Value: 50$ - 200$

Here it starts with the highly collectible emblems.Value: 200$ - 500$

A very rare and very desirable emblem. You have to look years to find one of these.Value: 500$ - 800$